This book features extended profiles of leading architects in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Java and Bali. Their major works are fully documented through plans and drawings, photographs and analytical text. Far-reaching and provocative essays by Philip Goad and Anoma Pieris precede the architects' profiles. The pleasures and rewards of designing in the world's most exotic locations are tempered by the realities of architectural responsibility in some of the world's fastest-growing cities.